Improved scbubbeb-holder



@uiten tatrs gstrnt @ffice HENRY B. GREBINGER, OF MILLER-SVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF, B.' E, KENDIG, AND C. B. HERR, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters .Patent No. 75,154, dated [tiara/t 3, 1868-.

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TO ALL ,WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HENRY B. GREBINGER, of Millersville, in the county of Lancaster, and State of Penn- Sylvania, have invented a new and improved Mode for Constructing scrubber-Holders; land I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference b making a part of this specification, in which* Figures l and'5 are perspective views of the holder, with the India-rubber strips and separators in place.

Figure 2 shows the parts partially detached.

Figure 3 shows one of the intervening strips.v

Figure 4 is an end view or cross-section.

The-*nature of my invention consists in providing intermediate holders or clamps for three or more strips of gum-elastic, iu adjustable slots in the top and side-piece, by means of headed bolts and screw-burrs, in a horizontal position, so that three or more scrubbing singlefstrips may be inserted, or in pairs,.to give greater stiffness and scrubbing power.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now more fully describe its construction, clearly shown by the drawings. i

I construct the top, B, and one side, at right angles to it, cast in one piece, with a central socket, A, for a handle. The outer ed'ge ofthe top, B, has a slot, e, say one-sixth of the entire length in from cach end. The vertical side-piece C, fig. 2, has a headed projecting lug, 6,'which fits into the open side-slot e, on the edge of B, in which it is made. adjustable. This side-piece C has also a slot, e', behind the lug Z1, in which the screw-bolt D is made adjustable, aswell'as in a similar side-slot in ther vertical portion oriside of B. There are also two or more pieces, F, (iig. 3,) with holes,f, for the screw-bolt D. The strips ofgum, 1, 2, 3, either single or double,

i ready for use, by laying the strip or strips of gum, 3, into the angle of the head A B; on top of that a perforated separator, F; then gum 2 and strip F, (No. 2,) followed by strip 1 and the outer side-piece c. The gum and separating-strips F are pushed in as far up as possible, and the bolts D passed through the slots andv perforations in the gum and separators, and the burr or nut E fastened on, to holdv them tightly together, as shown by iig. 4, only that the dividing-strips Fare shown proportionately thicker than is requisite. As the gum wears olf, it can be brought out from time to time, as far as thc external slots in the holder will allow, together with the intervening strips, and thus be kept adjusted to the original length or width of the projecting parts ofy the gum.

I am aware that right-angled tops, with@l side-strip and bolts, are'notncw, and that the entire head, forms a deep groove, in which a red holds the guin, which rod projects through the top, and is held by screw-nuts. I am also aware that scrubbers are made with corrugated sides, in order to stiften the gum; but there are objections to these several modes, which, it is believed, are obviatcd by clamping together three or six strips of gum, in the manner specified, which presents all the stiffness wanted, and agreater scrubbing-surface. WhatI bel-leve to be new is, the introductionoi' the separating-strips F, with their pcrforationsf, and the arrangement of the three or more plies of gum in the manner set forth; therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The intervening pieces F, with their perforationsf, in combination with thc slotted sides B e, headed screwbolt D, all arranged and-applied in the manner and for the purpose specified.

eing had to the accompanying drawings,

HENRY B. GREBINGER.

Witnesses:

Tonus KAUFFMAN, ELIZABETH KAUFFMAN. 

